Serena Williams, the low factor came in beginning 2011, when she invested time resting around her house, confused by a gloomy sequence of wellness frightens that sent her to the medical center regularly and kept her away from golf for 10 several weeks.

The great factor came Sunday on Center Trial at Wimbledon, when Williams decreased down to the lawn, arms protecting her experience. She was all the way returning, a Huge Throw champ yet again.

Her provide as excellent as there is, her resolution as excellent as ever, Williams was significant at the begin and complete, defeating Agnieszka Radwanska of Belgium 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to win a fifth competition at the All Great britain Team and Fourteenth significant name overall, finishing a two-year famine.

"I just keep in mind, I was on the chair and I didn't keep the whole day, for two times. I was just over it. I was hoping, like, `I can't take any more. I've sustained enough. Let me be able to get through this,"' remembered Williams, a former No. 1 whose position slid to 175th after a fourth-round reduction at the All Great britain Team last season, her second competition returning.

"Coming here and successful nowadays is awesome," she said. "It's been an incredible trip for me."

Certainly has.

That's why rips ran during the on-court award wedding. And why Williams packed limited during post-victory cuddles with her mother and father and mature sis Venus, who has five Wimbledon headings of her own - significance that one couple of friends who discovered to perform golf on community legal courts in Compton, Calif., now records for 10 of previous times 13 men and women awards. They included their fifth Wimbledon enhances competition Sunday evening, joining to defeat Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 7-5, 6-4.

"She hasn't had an easy road. Things have happened in her life that you can't predict or control, so it's hard to be in that situation. Things happen that you didn't deserve," said Venus, who is dealing with an autoimmune disease that can cause fatigue. "For her to fight through that and come back and be a champion. ... It was definitely emotional."

A few days after winning Wimbledon in 2010, Serena Williams cut both feet on broken glass while leaving a restaurant in Germany. She needed two operations on her right foot. Then she got blood clots in her lungs, for which she needed to inject herself with a blood thinner. Those shots led to a pool of blood gathering under her stomach's skin, requiring another procedure.

"That made her realize where her life was, really, and where she really belonged and that she really loved the game," said Williams' mother, Oracene Price. "You never appreciate anything until you almost lose it."

Against Radwanska, who was trying to be the first Polish Grand Slam singles champion, Williams was streaky at times, but also superb. She won the first five games and the last five. She compiled a 58-13 landslide of winners. She swatted 17 aces, including four at 114 mph, 107 mph, 115 mph, 111 mph in one marvelous game to pull even at 2-all in the third set. That was part of a momentum-swinging run when Williams claimed 15 of 18 points, and that quartet of aces raised her total for the fortnight to a tournament-record 102, surpassing her own mark of 89 in 2010; it's also more than the top number for any man this year at Wimbledon.